The Biden administration has called for protecting mature US forests to slow climate change, but it's still allowing them to be logged
- Written by Beverly Law, Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
An old-growth tree that was cut in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesForests are critically important for slowing climate change. They remove huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – 30% of all fossil fuel emissions annually – and store carbon in trees and soils. Old and...